The woman who went from making R250 a month to building a company that now pays her over R200 million just in dividends

• Malda Wierzycka's shareholdings pay her over R200 million in dividends in a single financial year.
• Wierzycka grew up in a small two-bedroom apartment shared by her parents, brother, sister and grandmother, and her family left communist Poland in 1981 and spent eight months in a refugee centre in Austria.
• Sygnia provides investment solutions and has R460.8 billion under management, with Wierzycka's approach to differentiate the business from established competitors.